Creating A Skinny Cake.

I am making a cake for a small wedding, 100 servings. I'd like to make the cake look a bit sleek since the venue is an historic art deco hotel. So I want to try skinny tiers. I was thinking 11, 10, 9, 8, 6, with the top reserved for the anniversary.

I'm not sure. I've stacked the pans and it looks ok, but I've never done one!

does anyone have an example of a cake they've made with similar dimensions?

AOh geez guys, there are wayyyyyyyy more talented people out there than me! But thank you, I appreciate it! Shoot, when is PBS (cause they're the only ones who would do it right!!) going to do a series that visits Peggy Porschen's and Cake Opera's shops? Or does a three (or four or five) hour documentary on Margaret Braun? That would be good television!

AOlder thread, but AZ if you have a moment I have a quick question. Using your chart, I see a 5 tier cake in the towery section. My client really wants 5 tiers, she's flexible but I'd like to give her what she wants since it's possible. Anyway, you say it depends on the designs Do you have any suggestions to making the cake look "right". Things that I should or shouldn't do? It's one of those super hero cakes but we are mixing it up with star wars

Ok, so most of the details should really be flat where possible, maybe only a few that are really large and stick out from the cake, otherwise, with the lack of "shelves" (the ledges of the tiers under each one), details that stick out will tend to look a little funny. In my examples, you see there aren't any details that stick out much. I hope that makes sense.

So, painted space scene on a couple or few of the cakes, fading into whatever background you'd use for the superheroes? Cut out planets, maybe with slight puffiness underneath them for a bit of texture, and maybe one or two round planets....

A topper is definitely ok, maybe make it where part of the topper hangs down even, extending past the top of the top tier. (Hope THAT makes sense)

Ok, so most of the details should really be flat where possible, maybe only a few that are really large and stick out from the cake, otherwise, with the lack of "shelves" (the ledges of the tiers under each one), details that stick out will tend to look a little funny. In my examples, you see there aren't any details that stick out much. I hope that makes sense.

So, painted space scene on a couple or few of the cakes, fading into whatever background you'd use for the superheroes? Cut out planets, maybe with slight puffiness underneath them for a bit of texture, and maybe one or two round planets....

A topper is definitely ok, maybe make it where part of the topper hangs down even, extending past the top of the top tier. (Hope THAT makes sense)